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John

Yes we can

My Interests

Music:

Some call my music taste eccentric. I just call it good music. In my CD collection you might come across such artists as: Aretha Franklin, Audio Slave, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, The Black Crows, Black Sabbath, BOC, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Cake, Cee-Lo Green, Counting Crows, CCR, Dave Matthews Band, DMX, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Etta James, The Flamming Lips, Flogging Molly, Gnarles Barkley, Green Day, The Guess Who, Incubus, Jay-Z, Jimi Hendrix, Joss Stone, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Louis Armstrong, Ludacris, Maroon 5, Matisyahu, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, NIN, Nirvana, No Doubt, OAR, Ottis Redding, OutKast, Pantera, APC, Primus, Queen, RATM, Ray Charles, RHCP, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Sound Garden, STP, The Strokes, Sublime, SOAD, Toadies, Tom Petty, Tool, Van Morrison, VAST, The Vines, Weezer, White Zombie, Willie Nelson, and just about anything else in between

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange, Crash, Another Day in Paradise, I Heart Huckabees, SLC Punk, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I & II, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Quest For the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, Snatch, Lock Stock, The Usual Suspects, The Boondock Saints, The Way of the Gun, 21 Grams, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Silence of the Lambs, Anchorman, Grandma's Boy, Old School, Wedding Crashers, 40yr old Virgin, Layer Cake, 300, Pulp Fiction, Requiem For A Dream, Identity, The Birdcage, Men In Tights, Clue, 13th Warrior, LOTR, Matrix, Star Wars, Space Balls, History of the World, Edward Scissor Hands, Donny Brasco, yada yada yada

Television:

Man Vs. Wild, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, History's Mysteries, In Search of..., Uncovering the Truth, Man Moment Machine, Any other show on The History Channel, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Futurama, Scrubs, Ninja Warrior, Attack of the Show, The Boondocks, Metalacolypse, American Dad, King of the Hill, That 70's Show, UFC, every now and then we'll watch one of those "The World's Blankiest Blank!" or "When Shit Goes Wrong!" shows... it's garbage but entertaining

Books:

The Screwtape Letters, Anything Tolkien, Guns Germs and Steele, The Prophet, Freedom From the Known, Chronicles of Narnia, James and The Giant Peach, The B.F.G., Walkin' The Dog, The Way of Chuang Tzu, The Case For Impeachment, Can't think of any others... I've been reading texts for school for far too long

Heroes:

Those who lead by example

My Blog

School + Job = Freakin weak schedule

Well, the summer is over and the new school year is in full swing.  Why am I still in school you ask?  Because my dumbass fell merely 6 hours or 2 classes behind schedule for graduating in M...
Posted by John on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:07:00 PST

Belated News on the Home Brew

First of all I must appologize to those interested to hear of my adventures in Home Brewing.  I should have come back and written an enthusiastic "HELL YEAH!".  My first experiments with hom...
Posted by John on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:28:00 PST

Derby Results

So, if you haven't already heard the winner of The Kentucky Derby 133 was "Street Sense".  One of the early favorites held true to his odds.  Sharon was jumping and yelling along side me bec...
Posted by John on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:54:00 PST

Home Brewed

The increase of temperature has brought many great things to Louisville.  Plants and trees are blooming as Spring really sets in.  In addition to Mother Nature waking up, the increase in ave...
Posted by John on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:26:00 PST

Kentucky Derby 133


Posted by John on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:15:00 PST

New Job

So as some of you have seen, I detest my job as night auditor at the crappy little motel.  The place continued to get worse though.  Kumar really really doesn't know how to treat his em...
Posted by John on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:39:00 PST

A slow...slow death

I am the first to admit that I complain quiet a bit.  But I feel that I should allow those who I don't see very often the chance to get in on all the action they have been missing.  My...
Posted by John on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:15:00 PST

A Religious Experience with Catholicism and Buddhism

John Marcum March 19, 2006 Sociology of Religion A Religious Experience with Catholicism and Buddhism              My first religious observatio...
Posted by John on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:38:00 PST

Jazz Review

John Marcum October 12, 2006 PAS 218 Zach Brock              On Wednesday, October 11 my girlfriend and I found ourselves at our new favorite Jazz...
Posted by John on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:20:00 PST

Religion: The Social Context

John Marcum Honors 436/446 April 27, 2006 Meredith B. McGuire, Religion: The Social Context Chapter Six                  &nbs...
Posted by John on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:15:00 PST